Pendidikan karakter dalam perspektif tokoh Muhamadiyah

Abstract

Muhammadiyah was founded at the time of the discriminatory education of the colonial government and the condition of Islamic education which is apprehensive. These conditions encourage KH. Ahmad Dahlan to organize a Muhammadiyah school, which combines general knowledge with religious teaching. It aims to give a balance between intellectual intelligence and spiritual intelligence in students. Character education KH. Ahmad Dahlan is based on the teachings of Islam, namely faith, science, and charity. In principle, religion is not just as knowledge alone, but must come to the practice. KH. Ahmad Dahlan rejected the Dutch colonial government’s educational system at the time, which was discriminatory and very intellectual. In addition, KH. Ahmad Dahlan considers the importance of the implementation of comprehensive education, which is implemented in a cottage system, and is managed with the principle of kinship. Through the cottage system, with the togetherness of teachers and students every day, indirectly children not only learn from textbooks, but also through life they experience everyday. Character-based religious education in moral education according to KH. Ahmad Dahlan in accordance with the characteristics of Indonesian society based on religion and culture, if applied at this time also in harmony with the master character education design developed by the government.